ABSTRACT
One of the most important things to remember when faced with an incongruent client is that is how they are supposed to be. To put it another way, it is a sense of their incongruence (manifesting as vulnerability and/or anxiety) that brings clients to therapy or, as Sanders (2006b: 43) puts it, ‘the client needs help, and knows it’. This is in accord with the second of the necessary and sufficient conditions and recognising and accepting client incongruence is a fundamental task of person-centred therapy.
